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[IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH) Gelling and King celebrate; Pranksters hopeful counting ballots] Western Courier - Western Illinois University - Volume 66 - Macomb, Illinois, Wednesday, March 19, 1969 - Number 22. Pass-Fail Passes SGA; Proposal Moves To Faculty For Approval: The proposal to initiate a pass-fail system of Grading at Western has been passed by SGA (student government association) and will be presented to Faculty Senate for approval. Under a pass-fail system, students are allowed to take a certain number of hours for which they receive no letter grade but merely a P or F. The proposal for Western, which was patterned after the University of Illinois' according to Sharon Kucera, chairman of the academics affairs committee of SGA, would make a distinction between students in the school of education and those in other schools. A student who is in the field of education will be allowed ten hours of pass-fail. Four of those hours may be taken in humanities, six hours in electives, or all ten hours in electives. No more than four hours will be allowed in the humanities. A student who is enrolled in a school other than education will be allowed 12 hours of pass-fail. Four of these hours may be in humanities, eight hours in electives or all 12 hours in electives. No more than four hours will be allowed in the humanities. ""The committee decided this because a student who is not in the field of education must take more electives, and therefore should have more pass-fail hours,"" explained Sharon. ""It is hoped that by including four hours in humanities more students will be encouraged to try courses such as music, art, philosophy, etc., which they might ordinarily avoid. The reason that the hours were limited to this number is because many school systems and employers have doubts about this system. ""We feel that as the pass-fail system becomes more widespread the hours and areas can be increased also, asserted Sharon. Another important aspect of the proposal is that instructors will not know who is taking his course for a P or F - and who is not. At the period of registration a list will be available concerning courses which may be taken under the pass-fail system. A professor, if he does not want his course to be pass-fail will contact the registrar's office before pre-registration of each quarter. Failure to do so will mean that the course may be taken under the system. The student then applies for a pass-fail course through the registrar. The A, B, C, and D grades will be recorded as P, an F grade will be recorded as F. ""After studying other schools with the pass-fail system, it was found that many instructors felt they could not fairly evaluate students who they knew to be taking the course for a p or a F rather than for the regular letter grade,"" Sharon explained. Under the proposal, a pass-fail course may be dropped until one week before finals at the registrar's office and it will of pass-fail hours. If a student receives a p after the final, it will recorded as a p with hours added but not included on the hours in the grade point average. It will transfer with hours recorded as a P grade on the pass-fail system. If a student receives an F on the pass-fail system, this will be recorded as an F and be included as an F on the grade point average. It will also transfer as an F on the pass-fail system. ""I see nothing essentially wrong with the pass-fail system per se; the only problem that might be present is the one of 'peddling' one's credits,"" commented Dr. Marcy Bodine of the political science department. Dr. Elizabeth Kaspar of the education department asserted: ""I am in favor of a pass-fail for electives outside the major field. I feel, however, that a teacher should be well prepared - above a minimum D level because a teacher's inadequacies harm his students much more than he harms himself."" ''I would like to see a pass-fail system for all courses except those in the major and min� or fields. Better yet I would like to have no grades at all in such courses, but the millennium is not yet,"" remarked Richard Vick of the English department. IHC Sets Up Committee For Open Visitation: Inter-Residence Hall Council, shortly before quarter break, began work on a proposal which may eventually establish an open visitation policy in the residence halls. Steve Drescher, president of Lincoln Hall, initiated the proposal which created a special committee to begin collecting information and formulate the final proposal. According to Dale Syfert, president of IHC: ""We want to make a thorough study of the operation of similar systems at other schools and attempt to reach each and every student who wishes to express an opinion concerning this. ""Once the proposal is written IHC will pass on it after surveying campus opinion through its Kross Check committee. SGA and WAWS will also probably want to consider the proposal before it is referred to the Council on Student Welfare."" Any student residing in a residence hall is eligible to serve on the Visitation Committee which is presently chaired by Bruce Domazlicky. The details of the proposal (hours, rules, etc.) will be determined by this committee and any student wishing to help with this effort should leave a letter or note in the IHC mail box in the Activities Center of the Union indicating such. ""This will require a lot of effort from all students if we are to succeed,"" asserted Syfert. See Inside� Letter from Purdue Educator dealing with Student Dissention� Page 3.

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[IMAGE (PHOTOGRAPH) Gelling and King celebrate; Pranksters hopeful counting ballots] Western Courier - Western Illinois University - Volume 66 - Macomb, Illinois, Wednesday, March 19, 1969 - Number 22. Pass-Fail Passes SGA; Proposal Moves To Faculty For Approval: The proposal to initiate a pass-fail system of Grading at Western has been passed by SGA (student government association) and will be presented to Faculty Senate for approval. Under a pass-fail system, students are allowed to take a certain number of hours for which they receive no letter grade but merely a P or F. The proposal for Western, which was patterned after the University of Illinois' according to Sharon Kucera, chairman of the academics affairs committee of SGA, would make a distinction between students in the school of education and those in other schools. A student who is in the field of education will be allowed ten hours of pass-fail. Four of those hours may be taken in humanities, six hours in electives, or all ten hours in electives. No more than four hours will be allowed in the humanities. A student who is enrolled in a school other than education will be allowed 12 hours of pass-fail. Four of these hours may be in humanities, eight hours in electives or all 12 hours in electives. No more than four hours will be allowed in the humanities. ""The committee decided this because a student who is not in the field of education must take more electives, and therefore should have more pass-fail hours,"" explained Sharon. ""It is hoped that by including four hours in humanities more students will be encouraged to try courses such as music, art, philosophy, etc., which they might ordinarily avoid. The reason that the hours were limited to this number is because many school systems and employers have doubts about this system. ""We feel that as the pass-fail system becomes more widespread the hours and areas can be increased also, asserted Sharon. Another important aspect of the proposal is that instructors will not know who is taking his course for a P or F - and who is not. At the period of registration a list will be available concerning courses which may be taken under the pass-fail system. A professor, if he does not want his course to be pass-fail will contact the registrar's office before pre-registration of each quarter. Failure to do so will mean that the course may be taken under the system. The student then applies for a pass-fail course through the registrar. The A, B, C, and D grades will be recorded as P, an F grade will be recorded as F. ""After studying other schools with the pass-fail system, it was found that many instructors felt they could not fairly evaluate students who they knew to be taking the course for a p or a F rather than for the regular letter grade,"" Sharon explained. Under the proposal, a pass-fail course may be dropped until one week before finals at the registrar's office and it will of pass-fail hours. If a student receives a p after the final, it will recorded as a p with hours added but not included on the hours in the grade point average. It will transfer with hours recorded as a P grade on the pass-fail system. If a student receives an F on the pass-fail system, this will be recorded as an F and be included as an F on the grade point average. It will also transfer as an F on the pass-fail system. ""I see nothing essentially wrong with the pass-fail system per se; the only problem that might be present is the one of 'peddling' one's credits,"" commented Dr. Marcy Bodine of the political science department. Dr. Elizabeth Kaspar of the education department asserted: ""I am in favor of a pass-fail for electives outside the major field. I feel, however, that a teacher should be well prepared - above a minimum D level because a teacher's inadequacies harm his students much more than he harms himself."" ''I would like to see a pass-fail system for all courses except those in the major and min� or fields. Better yet I would like to have no grades at all in such courses, but the millennium is not yet,"" remarked Richard Vick of the English department. IHC Sets Up Committee For Open Visitation: Inter-Residence Hall Council, shortly before quarter break, began work on a proposal which may eventually establish an open visitation policy in the residence halls. Steve Drescher, president of Lincoln Hall, initiated the proposal which created a special committee to begin collecting information and formulate the final proposal. According to Dale Syfert, president of IHC: ""We want to make a thorough study of the operation of similar systems at other schools and attempt to reach each and every student who wishes to express an opinion concerning this. ""Once the proposal is written IHC will pass on it after surveying campus opinion through its Kross Check committee. SGA and WAWS will also probably want to consider the proposal before it is referred to the Council on Student Welfare."" Any student residing in a residence hall is eligible to serve on the Visitation Committee which is presently chaired by Bruce Domazlicky. The details of the proposal (hours, rules, etc.) will be determined by this committee and any student wishing to help with this effort should leave a letter or note in the IHC mail box in the Activities Center of the Union indicating such. ""This will require a lot of effort from all students if we are to succeed,"" asserted Syfert. See Inside� Letter from Purdue Educator dealing with Student Dissention� Page 3.